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Occurrence record: Marine Invertebrates:K691

Preserved specimen of Tosia australis Gray, 1840 | Biscuit Star
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource South Australian Museum Adelaide provider for OZCAM
Institution code South Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "SAMA"
Collection South Australian Museum Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Marine Invertebrates"
Catalog number K691
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:380567"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Dry Specimen
Collector Shepherd, A. Scoresby  
Supplied as "Scoresby A. Shepherd"
Individual count 18
License CC-BY
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:29643
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Tosia australis
Supplied scientific name "Tosia australis Gray, 1840"
Identified to rank species
Common name Biscuit Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Goniasteridae
Genus Tosia
Species Tosia australis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Gray, 1840
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Latitude -34.9791
Supplied as: "-34.9791"
Longitude 138.5036
Supplied as: "138.5036"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Glenelg Breakwater
Coordinate precision 0.0001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 34 58 45 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 138 30 13 E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges
    NRM Regions 2017 Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Spencer Gulf Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions St Vincent Gulf
    States including coastal waters South Australia (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 477.2 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 193.4 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 3.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 54.4 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 47.6 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 55.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 17.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 194.4 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 17.4 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 42.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 25.7 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 17.12 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 21.44 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 7.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 12.2 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.58 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 22.24 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.45 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.364
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 29.140001 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 22.24 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 12.2 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 47.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.41799998
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.866